Chelsea Handler is back with a freshly stamped passport and new global
outlook as she tackles today's tough issues with the same acerbic wit
and fearless curiosity you know and love. Handler is tossing the
traditional talk show model out the window for Chelsea. Join
her as she travels around the world – from Russia, Japan, and Mexico
City, across the U.S. and back again to Sony Pictures Studios, where she
tapes in front of a LIVE in-studio audience – to explore the subjects
that matter most to you. Chelsea will also feature celebrities,
dignitaries, and surprise guests, but as you've never seen them before:
engaging in thought-provoking, yet hilarious conversations about topics
like international cultures, alternative lifestyles, education, health,
sports, parenting, politics, and more.

Mitchel Broussard

While the show itself could be a bit scatterbrained in attempting to tackle so many ideas and issues all at once, her ultimate, hilariously ordinary epiphany from all of it is the best end-cap her journey could have asked for.

Jeff Jensen

Robert Lloyd

Produced by Morgan Neville and directed throughout by Eddie Schmidt with an expensive-looking creaminess, each episode spends upward of an hour going back and forth through the subject, in different ways: conversational (Handler hanging out with friends, some of them also famous, some of them also comedians, to discuss the matter at hand, or talking to experts in the relevant field); confessional (one on one with a clinical psychologist); and experiential, as she puts herself into different environments, or experiments on herself, to learn something new.

Margaret Lyons

The show's curiosity and smarts buoy it during times of less credibility, and there's almost a sense of determination radiating out of the episodes. We're doing this. Luckily, they're doing it pretty well.

Dennis Perkins

Hardcore documentary fans may find Chelsea Does a bit lacking in terms of depth—especially as the sheen surrounding most of the episodes is a bit off-balance, given Handler’s personal lack of polish. But for Chelsea Handler fans or even people who aren’t deeply invested in the genre, these are definitely good jumping-off points.

Daniel D'Addario

Confessional art is one (often wonderful) thing, and confessional art made by women is too often torn apart unthinkingly. But a lengthy meditation by a famous person on their own public image is only interesting if that public figure is doing real reflection. Handler, by contrast, is openly dismissive of anyone who challenges her point-of-view. The race episode is the most pernicious example of that: Handler convenes a panel of activists seemingly only to berate them about how they are wrong and she is right about political correctness.